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According to multiple reports, the Texans will appear on this season’s edition of training-camp documentary Hard Knocks.

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The astounding amounts of rain that have fallen in Texas and Oklahoma during the past few weeks has led Lake Travis, one of the city of Austin's main reservoirs, to go from the poster child of drought to healthy reservoir in just several days

As of May 26 at 9:45 a.m. CDT, the water level in Lake Travis was 655.52 high, up from 633.56 feet on May 19. That's a difference of nearly 22 feet. And going back further in time, to one month ago, the lake was at just 629.38 feet of water, which means it rose 26 feet over that period

Lake Travis is expected to rise to 657 to 660 feet by Wednesday – that’s up more than 22 ft in the last week.

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We've already taken an extensive look at all the options and interface changes in the new and unreleased Google Photos app that should be decoupling from Google+ and hitting our devices sometime down the line, and now it's time to peek behind the scenes at the app's settings, specifically its backup options.

With the current Photos app, the first run asks you to enable or disable photo backup and asks whether you want to use cellular networks or not.

Google's New Photos App Will Get More Transparent Settings For Photo Backup was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Historic flooding struck the Houston area last night, with many roads becoming impassable and downright dangerous. As the Rockets closed out their Game 4 win around 11 p.m. local time, Toyota Center officials urged fans to remain in the arena for their own safety.

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So what if it didn’t count? This is impressive as hell.

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As the refrain goes, there are two types of people in the world: those who like mountains and those who prefer beaches.

Beach people are extroverts, while mountain people tend to be introverts, one study found. But whichever you are, there's no denying the beauty of these amazing mountains, as photographed by travelers.

For its April photography contest, Intrepid Travel asked travelers to submit photos of the wilderness, including national parks, jungles and mountains. The mountain shots they received, in particular, look amazing (check them out, below). Read more...

Microsoft's digital voice assistant Cortana is coming to Android phones and iPhones this summer, Microsoft announced Tuesday

Cortana will be able to do most of the things it does on the PC or a Windows phone, including answering your questions, giving you reminders and tracking your flights, Microsoft explained in a blog post, confirming rumors of the migration that circulated earlier this year.

Microsoft's voice assistant will be a part of a suite of apps, supported on all three major mobile platforms and installed via a desktop app called the Phone Companion. The Phone Companion is an interesting proposition — you mostly won't need it for a Windows Phone device, which will be integrated with Windows 10 out of the box. But if you have an iPhone or an Android, installing the apps offered by the Phone Companion will make it work much more closely with Windows 10 Read more...

Batman's trusty Batmobile has raced over to the set of Suicide Squad.

The souped-up ride, set to make its premiere in the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, was spotted on the Suicide Squad set in Toronto. Ben Affleck, who plays Batman, wasn't reported to be anywhere on set, despite his ride being filmed for what looks like an upcoming scene.

Passers-by near the set captured video of the Batmobile chasing the Joker (played by Jared Leto) and Harley Quinn (played by Margot Robbie) around in his bright red sports car

Suicide Squad director David Ayer was probably trying to keep the Batmobile appearance under wraps, but in the age of smartphones, that's nearly impossible. Numerous bystanders recorded footage of the Batmobile scene and quickly uploaded to YouTube, Instagram and Twitter Read more...

The Nexus 6 was a break from the past for the Nexus program with its high price tag and massive size, but it was probably an emergency replacement after the collapse of Android Silver. We've been wondering if Google would recommit to the Nexus program, and it's sounding like yes—in a big way. We've gotten some details on two alleged Nexus phones for 2015, but there are currently no plans for a tablet.

[Rumor] No Nexus Tablet In 2015, But Two Phones—A 5.2-Inch LG (Code Name Angler) And A 5.7-Inch Huawei (Code Name Bullhead) was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Samsung has been teasing the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Iron Man edition for quite some time, but the goods have finally been fully revealed. It’s everything we imagined it would be, with a very nice red chassis accented with some elegant-looking gold (including Iron Man’s logo plastered on the back looking as mean as ever).

What’s even better is that this thing will also ship with an Iron Man-themed wireless charger. It’ll also obviously have Samsung’s Iron Man TouchWiz theme pre-installed (though that’s just as easy to change as any theme).

Everything else is the Galaxy S6 Edge as you know it, with this particular variant coming with a standard storage count of 64GB.

Unfortunately availability for this thing won’t be widespread for now, with Samsung  only confirming launches for China, Hong Kong and their home turf of South Korea. The earliest landing date will be May 27th — that’s tomorrow — so if you’re keen on importing one you’ll want to look into it as soon as possible because we’re sure this limited run won’t last.

[via Samsung]

Waiting for Periscope to hit Android? The app will be launching today according to press information sent out by the company. If you aren’t aware, Periscope is Twitter’s new live streaming service that’ll allow you to quickly and easily broadcast a live stream from your phone and Tweet it out to your followers. Those followers can then get a quick and easy link to tune into what’s going on.

It was previously only available for iOS, though Twitter had always said Android wasn’t far off. The app is largely the same as its iOS counterpart, with a stream of broadcasts you can explore or an easy button to launch one of your own. It also has some unique features, such as a button in your notification tray to easily return to a broadcast if you were interrupted (by a call or message). It also features Material Design for those who are into that sort of thing.

The concept of Persicope is simple, yet its presence is important. While live streaming itself isn’t new, it hasn’t always been easy to do from the limited confines of a mobile phone. This app makes it easy to broadcast important events outside your home without having a clunky or professional setup.

Whether it be something as fun as a concert after-party or sensitive local events (Baltimore, anyone?), Periscope opens up a whole new avenue of live social media coverage. Periscope for Android will require Android 4.4 KitKat, though that shouldn’t be too tall an order with a vast majority of Android users being on that particular flavor. You can’t actually download it yet, but the app should be going live over at Google Play at some point later today, and we expect it’ll show up right here. Keep an eye out!

[Update]: It’s live! Go grab it as soon as possible!

[via Engadget]

Ghostbusters isn't the only movie getting an all-female remake.

In honor of NBC's charity event Red Nose Day, celebrities like Anna Kendrick and the cast of Orange is the New Black appeared in some all-female parody movie reboots — with new titles such as Indianna Jones and Reservoir Bitches.

Hollywood needs to get to work, because we'd really like these films to be more than pipe dreams.

The men haven't been totally cast out, though. Woody Allen fans can surely find a new appreciation for Paul Rudd in Danny Hall.

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Over on reddit, user Grassiii has posted a photo of Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen’s latest pay stub. Grassiii says that a friend found it on a recent tour of the visitor’s clubhouse at Wrigley Field, where the Pirates played the Cubs over the weekend. Let’s have a look (you can click the magnifying glass in the top left corner to make the photo bigger):

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NASA's Dawn spacecraft has done it again. The prolific probe has captured its best image yet of the strange bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres.

This photo is just the latest in a series of "best bright spot photos yet" as Dawn moves into a closer orbit around Ceres, the largest body in the main belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter. The new image shows off the reflective spots seen in one of Ceres' many craters by Dawn earlier in the probe's mission.

Scientists haven't yet pinpointed the cause of the bright spots, but NASA wants to know what you think they might be. The space agency has opened a voting pool, asking members of the public to decide what they think is causing the reflectivity. Voting choices include "ice," "volcano," "geyser" and "salt deposit," plus a catch-all "other" category Read more...

Conan O' Brien already gave David Letterman a heartfelt goodbye, but he continued to show his appreciation with a small, thoughtful gesture

During Wednesday's show, Conan was mid-interview with comedian Patton Oswalt, when he urged TBS viewers to change the channel to CBS for Letterman's final Late Show

"Record us, but switch to Dave," Conan said, as flashing graphics appeared in all-caps, stating, "TURN TO DAVE."

Then things got weird.

"They're gone now. Now we can do whatever the f*ck we want," Conan said. Then Oswalt dumped his mug out onto the stage and laid across the desk for a Coco massage Read more...

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A man standing on the first cables during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, with the Presidio and San Francisco in the background.

Image: Underwood Archives/Getty Images

Nov. 1934

A freighter heads out to sea past the lone sentinel of the Marin Tower.

Image: Moulin/Underwood Archives/Getty Images

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Riveters at work in cages on the South Tower.

Image: Underwood Archives/Getty Images

Strong tides, swirling currents, deep water, strong winds and fog — engineers long argued that such conditions meant bridging the Golden Gate was either impossible or prohibitively expensive. But one engineer took a different view.  Read more...

Baggage handlers, working for Southwest Airlines out of the Oakland airport, have been accused of running a marijuana ring, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency.

A total of 14 people were charged in the Northern District of California for criminal conspiracy. Three of them — Kenneth Wayne Fleming, 32; Keith Ramon Mayfield, 34; and Michael Herb Videau, 28 — were Bay Area natives working as baggage handlers for the airline.

According to the DEA, the handlers carried luggage and backpacks filled with marijuana into the Oakland airport, then handed them off to passengers who had gone through the regular TSA screening. (Baggage handlers and several other airport employees are not required to go through screenings.) The passengers then flew with the drugs to other cities, including New Orleans, Louisiana, and Little Rock, Arkansas, according to The Guardian. Read more...

Google has detailed a new update for Google Maps that’ll help you avoid the dreadful result of a busy society: congested traffic. The company’s improved traffic alerts will now let you know if there is heavy traffic en route to your destination and will let you select an alternate route, if available.

The app will also update you on traffic conditions once you’ve already started your journey. It’ll let you know if congestion lies ahead, and — if so — will attempt to estimate how long you’ll be stuck. All of this is in preparation for the upcoming Memorial Day, though the feature will obviously stick well beyond that.

Google says the update will be in Google Play in time for the weekend so be sure to keep an eye out if you think you’ll need the future ahead of then.

[via Google]

You know it’s nice outside in most of the country, because you guys have been snatching up hammock deals as fast as we can post them. But if you still haven’t bought one, here’s a great deal on several Yukon Outfitters models, starting at just $20.

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He calls himself an idiot… we’d say he’s brilliant.

You’re featured in some devastatingly awesome photobombs. You’ve mastered the art of the duckface. Your front facing camera skills put the Selfie Stick to shame. Brag all you want… you’re a rookie compared to this guy who took 16 years of selfies and compiled them all into one mind-blowing video.

He calls himself an idiot (probably to generate more clicks) but I’d say moreso a self-depracating genius. It takes a lot of foresight and vision to start such a project before mobile phones were popular. Heck, before modern day selfies were invented.

The photos are creatively compiled on his site, allowing you to experience them in different ways:

His name is JK Keller and here are some interesting facts from this truly interesting project:

• He used Adobe After Affects Image Stabilization Plugin to maintain consistency across photos
• The project started out of spite when his girlfriend mocked his expensive purchase (Nikon Coolpix 900) by sarcastically asking, “Are you going to use it every day?”
• He was 22 years old when he started the project on October 1st, 1998
• He plans on continuing the project (and updating the videos) until the day he dies
• He doesn’t smile so the images are objective and similar across days, months, years, and decades
• There is 8 months of missing data during which time JK was a janitor in Antarctica. This is not a joke.

Now this is a guy with whom I’d like to sit down and have a cup of coffee. It’s one thing to have the idea, it’s another thing to start it, but consistently keeping at it for 16 years without some overarching motivation besides self interest? This is a real artist at work.

That being said, JK readily admits that he’s not the first to pursue such projects and acknowledges he won’t be the last. He has even compiled a list of related photo projects for those who enjoy his own.

Do you now feel inspired to dream up a project of long-term creativity of your own? Because I sure do…

Osama bin Laden was an avid reader.

The al Qaeda leader and 9/11 mastermind spent years in hiding after the United States invaded Afghanistan. He was eventually traced to a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he was killed by commandos in a 2011 raid.

On Wednesday, the U.S. released a "sizable tranche of documents" taken from the compound that night, which included a list of the English-language books found on bin Laden's bookshelf.

Among them are a simplistic guide to understanding Islam, Bob Woodward's Obama's Wars and Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival. Read more...

Video might save the Internet radio star

Spotify announced the new content and features at a splashy New York City event that featured Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer from Comedy Central's Broad City, Dutch DJ Tiesto, and singer D'Angelo.It wasn't quite Tidal's Hall of Fame of musical artists, but Spotify's eclectic group brought buzz

Spotify on Wednesday expanded into streaming video and podcasts, the biggest expansion of the company's content offering and its first venture beyond music.

In what appears to be its most creative new effort, Spotify Running will match music to a runner's pace. The new feature detects the runner's pace and finds a song that matches the rhythm of their feet by using the sensors on people's smartphones. Read more...

In just 3,478 miles, you can taste test the best barbecue the United States has to offer.

Or at least, the best it has to offer according to TripAdvisor, which released its list of the top-rated BBQ joints on Wednesday.

The travel website compiled the rankings based on several criteria. First, restaurants had to have at least 100 reviews. Then those reviews were ranked by quantity and quality, with recent reviews — those written in the past year — worth more. Meanwhile, chain restaurants with more than 10 locations were excluded, according to TripAdvisor. Read more...

After seeing Android 5.1.1 hit the new Nexus tablet, the old Nexus tablet, and the Nexus-branded set-top box, it's time for Google to show its handsets some of that bugfix update lovin'. Android 5.1.1 is now hitting the Nexus 5 (version LMY48B for devices on LMY47D, LMY47B for those on LMY47I) and the Nexus 4 (LMY47V).

Left: Nexus 5, Right: Nexus 4

Sprint gave us a heads up a week ago that the goods were on their way to the Nexus 5, but things didn't move quite so quickly.

Nexus 5, N4, And N9 LTE Android 5.1.1 Update Now Hitting Devices—Here Are The Direct OTA Links was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Deftones performed what is thought to have been their second set of the year last night at the ‘Rock In Rio USA‘ festival in Las Vegas, NV. Pro-shot footage of that full set can be seen below, complete with Rise Against‘s Tim McIlrath guesting on “Passenger“. Deftones‘ new album is tentatively scheduled for a September 25th release date.

Setlist:

01 – “Rocket Skates”
02 – “Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)”
03 – “My Own Summer (Shove It)”
04 – “Tempest”
05 – “Swerve City”
06 – “Diamond Eyes”
07 – “Rosemary”
08 – “Bloody Cape”
09 – “Sextape”
10 – “Change (In The House Of Flies)”
11 – “Passenger” (feat. Tim McIlrath)
12 – “Engine No. 9”
13 – “Headup”

The post Pro-Shot Footage Of Deftones’ ‘Rock In Rio USA’ Set Posted, Rise Against Singer Guests On “Passenger” appeared first on Theprp.com.

Metallica will be headlining the Super Stage at this years ‘X Games‘ in Austin, TX. That performance will take place at the Circuit of the Americas on June 06th with more details available here.

The post Metallica To Perform At The This Year’s ‘X Games’ appeared first on Theprp.com.

Poison The Well made their live return last night, May 15th, performing a show at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY. Fan-filmed footage from the set can be viewed below. Their setlist according to those in attendance:

“Nagaina”
“Cinema”
“Botchla ”
“Zombies Are Good for Your Health”
“Letter Thing ”
“To Mandate Heaven”
“Crystal Lake”
“Parks and What You Meant to Me”
“For a Bandaged Iris”
“Antarctica Inside Me”
“Pamplemousse” (feat. Tucker Rule)
“Slice Paper Wrists”
“Artist’s Rendering of Me”
“Apathy Is a Cold Body”
Encore:
“Ghostchant”
“Nerdy”

The show marked the bands first live set since going on hiatus back in 2010.

The post Here’s Footage Of Poison The Well’s First Live Show Since 2010 appeared first on Theprp.com.

Spotify, which has tripled its losses in two years, has one mission now: to show it hasn't blown its lead.

The good news is that Spotify has 15 million paying customers, making it the biggest subscription music service in the world. Its brand is synonymous with the modern music world. It generates valuable data about its listeners that can be used to identify the next big artists

Now, the bad news

Despite its market-leading position, the company is in a tough spot. It isn't making a profit. It's getting attacked by artists like Taylor Swift and Jay Z. And soon, it will be competing with companies like Google and Apple in what is becoming a very competitive and crowded market Read more...

The Sponge Bob Square Pants shirt and the presence of a normal-sized woman—always a fun gag —are enough to make this picture great, but then there’s the subject line on the email that brought it to us: “Mosgov [sic] demanded a pic with my gf.”

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